A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . led canvass-backs andgulls, and although a pounce or two generallyprevents further resistance, sometimes they are driven off. If the bird is remarkablysavory, the gull makes such a noise, that others are soon collected, when possession isdetermined by courage or
A book of the United States : exhibiting its geography, divisions, constitution and government ..and presenting a view of the republic generally, and of the individual states; together with a condensed history of the land ..The biography ..of the leading men; a description of the principal cities and towns; with statistical tables .. . led canvass-backs andgulls, and although a pounce or two generallyprevents further resistance, sometimes they are driven off. If the bird is remarkablysavory, the gull makes such a noise, that others are soon collected, when possession isdetermined by courage or strength.—Dcmghtys Cabinet. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 219 hundred on the flats near the western shore. These birds are so exceed-ingly vigilant, that if but three of them are feeding together, one will gen-erally be on guard, and when danger approaches, the alarm is feeding and dressing, they make much noise, and through the nighttheir vociferations can be heard for several miles. Their notes are extremelyvaried; some resembling the deepest base of the common tin horn, othersrunning through the various modulations of the clarionet. The swan isfive or six years in reaching its perfect growth. The aborigines employthe skin of this bird in making dresses for their women of rank, and thefeathers as ornaments for the head.*. American Rail. Rail.—This bird belongs to a genus of which naturalists enumerateabout thirty species, distributed over almost every region of the general character is every where the same. They run swiftly, fly * When wounded in the wing alone, a large swan will readily beat off a dog, and ismore than a match for a man in four feet water, a stroke of the wing having broken anarm, and the powerful feet almost obliterating the face of a good sized duck are often killed by rifle balls thrown from the shore into the feeding column, andas a ball will ricochet on the water for several hundred yards, a wing may be disabled atthe dist
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